First Annual Open Source Awards
This year we are kicking off first annual Open Source awards to highlight the most exciting and innovative projects of past year, highlighting lesser known projects from independent authors and maintainers.
Together with our community we defined 5 nominations and shortlisted top candidates to be presented to our jury of React opinion leaders and active OS contributors. The winners will be announced on the conference day, April 13, with YouTube live stream to follow.
Breakthrough of the year
Nominees
Apollo GraphQL
Apollo provides a universal GraphQL API on top of your existing services, so you can build new application features fast without waiting on backend changes.
Expo
Expo is a free and open source toolchain built around React Native to help you build native iOS and Android projects using JavaScript and React.
Fun side project of the year
Nominees
Home Automation
https://github.com/deepsyx/home-automation
Raspberry Pi 3 based home automation with NodeJS and React Native.
React Kawaii
https://miukimiu.github.io/react-kawaii/
React Kawaii is a library of cute SVG illustrations (react components). Ideal if you want to give some cuteness and personality to your react application.
Most impactful contribution to the community
Nominees
Storybook
Storybook is a development environment for UI components. It allows you to browse a component library, view the different states of each component, and interactively develop and test components.
How to GraphQL
How to GraphQL is a fullstack tutorial website to learn all about GraphQL! It was built by Graphcool and many amazing contributors. All content on the site is completely free and open-source.
Productivity booster
Nominees
Prettier
Prettier is an opinionated code formatter. It enforces a consistent style by parsing your code and re-printing it with its own rules that take the maximum line length into account, wrapping code when necessary.
lint-staged
https://github.com/okonet/lint-staged
Run linters against staged git files and don't let 💩 slip into your code base!
The most exciting use of technology
Nominees
React Native binding for iOS ARKit
Ink
https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink
React for CLIs. Build and test your CLI output using components.
Magic Persistence Layer
https://github.com/automerge/mpl
Magic Persistence Layer is a WebRTC peer-to-peer synchronization system for automerge documents.